TripAdvisor Reviews Hotel Villa El Yarey Jiguani

Travel Blogs from Jiguani

... frequent and fancier dressed locals rode bikes and walked throughout the colourful streets with a more money in their pockets. The scene was perfect for everyone to break out into a big song and dance but unfortunately it never happened... Ahhh well. Another half day in Camagüey and then we were off on a 5:30pm buss to get to holguin for a couple of nights. Our grand plan was to ensure we would reach the big crazy student city of ...

Today we start our traverse of the island, passing the village of El Cobre to visit the shrine of Our Lady of Charity, then continue through the lush green countryside to the town of Bayamo, where we'll have lunch and then take a horse and carriage ride and visit the workshop where these unique carriages are still made.

... the waters off the northern coast of Cuba with an inscription that read: “I am the Virgin of Charity.” Since then the Cuban people have flocked to El Cobre to bring her offerings in return for her protection. Among the many offerings the Virgin has received are Olympic medals and Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Prize, left by the author himself.

The next target on the map was Santiago de Cuba – but Sandy (hurricane) was so strong with the destructions in this region and no buses were running. So I went on a Jeep Taxi working on the typical hop on-hop off-system like real Cubans do to ...

... and gave them offer to fight with him against the Spanish to liberate Cuba.

It was very interesting and we were the only two there so got a personal tour and explanation (although all in Spanish). On the way back we stopped a couple of times either to see somewhere nice, to stop for the driver to speak with someone he knew or to buy drinks. That night the owner of the casa particular agreed to show us to a ...